Today in Science
jlynch | November 5, 2007Events
1935 - Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation."
Deaths
1771 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer
1822 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist
1964 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | October 31, 2007I’m off for the History of Science Society annual meeting in DC for the next few days, so posting will be scant or non-existent. I’m responding to a series of papers on Victorian critics of scientific naturalism and attending the Committee on Education annual meeting.
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Births
1835 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1925 - John Pople, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1943 - Paul Frampton, English…
jlynch | October 30, 2007Births
1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist
1847 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist
1857 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist
1894 - Jean Rostand, French biologist
1895 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist and Nobel Prize laureate (declined)
1895 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1900 - Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1907 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist
1928 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1939 - Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, and Nobel Prize laureate…
jlynch | October 29, 2007
Events
1991 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra (above), becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
Births
1656 (O.S.) - Edmond Halley, English astronomer
1827 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist
1880 - Abram Ioffe, Soviet physicist
1915 - William Berenberg, American physician
1920 - Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1923 - Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist
Deaths
1932 - Joseph BabiÅski, Polish-French neurologist
1933 - Albert Calmette, French physician
1971 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist and Nobel…
jlynch | October 28, 2007Births
1845 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist
1912 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist
1914 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1792 - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist
1841 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist
1877 - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist
1957 - Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist
2005 - Richard Smalley, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | October 27, 2007Events
1961 - NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
Births
1951 - Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
Deaths
1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer
1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist
1980 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1992 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist
1999 - Robert Mills, American physicist
jlynch | October 25, 2007Events
1977 - The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox.
1984 - "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
1994 - Announcement that Andrew Wiles correctly proved Fermat’s last theorem.
Births
1874 - Martin Lowry, British chemist
Deaths
1817 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist
1943 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist
1957 - Gerty Cori, Nobel Prize laureate
1989 - Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | October 25, 2007Births
1856 - Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist
1910 - William Higinbotham, American physicist
Deaths
1647 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician
jlynch | October 23, 2007Events
1998 - Launch of the Deep Space 1 mission
Births
1804 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist
1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1601 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer
jlynch | October 22, 2007Births
1875 - Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist
1905 - Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1908 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1581 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer
1944 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1986 - Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | October 22, 2007Good Monday morning to all my readers, especially to the 406 who read the blog via Feedburner. Did you know, that if each and everyone of you donated a mere $10 to our DonorsChoose drive, we’d have raised a total of $5,353 and will have met our challenge goals? That’s less than three cents a day spread over a year, and overall ten dollars well spent.
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Events
4004 BC - The universe…
jlynch | October 20, 2007Events
1983 - The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
2003 - Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
Births
1660 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German scientist
1833 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize
1957 - Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1872 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist
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Births
1808 - Karl Andree, German geographer
1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German…
jlynch | October 18, 2007Events
1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
1688 - William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist
1858 - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist
1897 - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar
1909 - Marguerite Perey, French physicist
1910 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1916 - Jean Dausset, French immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1951 - Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek mathematical physicist
Deaths
1937 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron…
jlynch | October 17, 2007Births
1859 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher and author of Creative Evolution.
1897 - Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist
1902 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist
Deaths
1886 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician
1911 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist
jlynch | October 17, 2007Events
1604 - Johannes Kepler observes Kepler’s Star (Supernova 1604), the last supernova to have been observed in the Milky Way.
Births
1919 - Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist
1936 - Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist
Deaths
1757 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist
1780 - William Cookworthy, English chemist
1887 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist
1931 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist
1934 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | October 14, 2007Events
1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesizes the first oral contraceptive
1997 - The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
2001 - NASA’s Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter’s moon Io.
Births
1608 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist
1829 - Asaph Hall, American astronomer
1909 - Jesse Leonard Greenstein, American astronomer
1940 - Peter Doherty, Australian immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1980 - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician
2000 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist and Nobel…
jlynch | October 13, 2007Births
1801 - Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist
1861 - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer
1914 - Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1831 - Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer
1960 - Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist
1984 - Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | October 13, 2007
Events
1773 - The Whirlpool Galaxy (above) was discovered by Charles Messier
1892 - Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1 (Barnard 3), the first comet discovered by photographic means
1976 - The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by F.A. Murphy at the C.D.C..
2003 - The Public Library of Science commences publication of an open access scientific journal, PLoS Biology.
Births
1820 - John William Dawson, Canadian geologist
1821 - Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician
Deaths
1687 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer…